| God's Sovereignty |
| Thursday, 29 January 2009 14:58 |
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Welcome friends to my first blog. Isn't technology wonderful!? Not so sure? Neither am I! It keeps coming up with new ways to complicate one's already busy schedule. But, could this particular new tool actually be ordained of God? Well, I have found myself thinking about that once again this week. I have been thinking about the ordained will of a sovereign God, especially as it relates to the trials of life. People are always asking why God allows terrible events to take place. If God knows all things, and God loves me, and God can do all things, then why doesn't God stop this horrible event from happening?
Well, God definitely is sovereign, no question there! Not only does He know about everything that can happen and will happen, He also knows about everything that potentially could happen but won't happen. In His sovereignty He allows many things to happen, some things we will like, and others we definitely will not like. That just sounds to me like life as we know it. Sovereignly, it is not yet our time to live in a Utopia. We still have the full effects of sin at work in our physical lives as well as on this physical earth. These effects God sovereignly placed upon Adam and us, his descendents (Rom. 5:12), because of Adam's choice to disobey His Creator. What God graciously chose to do, because of His own sovereign will, was to save us from the present evil world. He has mercifully and graciously provided salvation for our souls and will some day fully equip us for dwelling in a new heaven and on a new earth, where "all tears will be wiped away from our eyes."
Until then, may we live each day trusting the God who is sovereignly in control of that day, and every day. May we live with our sovereignly designed purpose in view, that is, to bring honor and glory to God, as the apostle Paul said, through our life and in our death.
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